Revision KSA-2026.08.01-R1

Trust the trail behind the guidance.

See which public sources were checked, how licensed material is handled, what human review has occurred, what remains recommended, and how material corrections are recorded.

Publication boundary

Kairos writes original explanations and does not claim sponsorship, certification, or endorsement by the source organizations. Consequential decisions still depend on the governing contract, current project facts, and authorized professionals.

Primary-source register

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Public full text

10S-90: Cost Engineering Terminology

AACE International

AACE’s maintained industry-consensus catalog for cost engineering, planning, scheduling, risk, and controls terminology.

Version scope: Maintained AACE 10S-90 page; linked PDF observed as revised June 11, 2026.
Use and rights: Definitions in the Kairos glossary are original explanations; readers are directed to AACE for the governing terminology.

Public sample or contents

Recommended Practice 14R-90: Required Skills and Knowledge of Planning and Scheduling

AACE International

AACE’s public sample describing core planning-and-scheduling competency areas; full practice access may require an AACE license.

Version scope: Linked public sample revised August 30, 2022; AACE’s catalog controls any later licensed revision.
Use and rights: Kairos summarizes competency themes and does not reproduce the licensed recommended practice.

Public index

Recommended Practices

AACE International

The current AACE index for peer-reviewed recommended practices, including planning, scheduling, risk, and forensic analysis guidance.

Version scope: Current AACE recommended-practices catalog.
Use and rights: Publication titles are referenced for attribution; access rights remain with AACE.

Public sample or contents

Recommended Practice 78R-13: Original Baseline Schedule Review

AACE International

AACE’s public sample and contents for reviewing an original EPC baseline as a usable execution and performance-measurement model; full practice access may require an AACE license.

Version scope: Linked public sample dated October 23, 2014; AACE’s catalog controls any later licensed revision.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original review guidance and does not reproduce the licensed recommended practice.

Public sample or contents

Recommended Practice 38R-06: Documenting the Schedule Basis

AACE International

AACE’s public contents for the schedule-basis record, including assumptions, calendars, constraints, coding, risk, and baseline-change reconciliation; full practice access may require an AACE license.

Version scope: Linked public sample has an editorial revision and quality-assurance review dated August 6, 2025.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original schedule-basis guidance and does not reproduce the licensed recommended practice.

Public sample or contents

Recommended Practice 52R-06: Prospective Time Impact Analysis

AACE International

AACE’s public sample for prospective TIA in construction, including source-schedule selection, fragnet development, insertion, calculation, and documentation; full practice access may require an AACE license.

Version scope: Linked public sample revised May 4, 2017; AACE’s catalog controls any later licensed revision.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original TIA review guidance and does not reproduce the licensed recommended practice.

Public sample or contents

Recommended Practice 29R-03: Forensic Schedule Analysis

AACE International

AACE’s taxonomy for selecting, describing, and applying forensic schedule-analysis methods.

Version scope: Linked public sample revised April 25, 2011; AACE’s catalog controls any later licensed revision.
Use and rights: Kairos references the method taxonomy and does not reproduce the licensed recommended practice.

Public help

Primavera P6 Professional User Guide, Version 26

Oracle

Oracle’s current public table of contents for P6 Professional workspace, project, schedule, update, baseline, layout, and control procedures.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help, last published May 29, 2026.
Use and rights: Kairos interface maps are original diagrams, not Oracle screenshots; Oracle owns Primavera and P6 marks and documentation.

Public help

Scheduling projects

Oracle

Oracle’s explanation of P6 CPM forward-pass, backward-pass, float, and automatic scheduling behavior.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 scheduling help, last published May 29, 2026.
Use and rights: Menu paths are referenced for interoperability and instruction; Oracle owns Primavera and P6 marks and documentation.

Public help

Checking schedules

Oracle

Oracle’s current Check Schedule categories, including logic, constraints, lags, float, durations, progress, baselines, and out-of-sequence work.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 Check Schedule help, last published May 29, 2026.
Use and rights: Kairos supplies original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public full text

Schedule Assessment Guide: Best Practices for Project Schedules

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Ten best practices for comprehensive, well-constructed, credible, and controlled schedules.

Version scope: GAO-16-89G, published December 22, 2015, and its current GAO product page.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original educational commentary and cites the public U.S. government publication.

Public full text

Delay and Disruption Protocol, second edition

Society of Construction Law

Public guidance on extensions of time, delay, disruption, concurrency, records, and method selection.

Version scope: Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol, second edition, February 2017.
Use and rights: Kairos summarizes themes in original language and directs readers to SCL for the protocol and its terms of use.

Public full text

UFGS 01 32 01.00 10: Project Schedule

Whole Building Design Guide / U.S. Department of Defense

An active public construction specification addressing P6, calendars, logic, progress, submissions, narratives, and time-extension analysis.

Version scope: Active section dated August 1, 2023 with an August 2024 change; project editions and agency modifications may differ.
Use and rights: Kairos cites the public specification as an example; the governing contract specification controls each project.

Public full text

Earned Value Management definitions

U.S. Department of Defense

Public definitions for the integrated scope, schedule, cost, and performance-measurement vocabulary used in EVM.

Version scope: Current U.S. Department of Defense public EVM definitions page.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original explanations and cites the public government source.

Public full text

DoD Earned Value Management System Interpretation Guide

U.S. Department of Defense

Public interpretive guidance for integrating scope, schedule, budget, progress, analysis, and baseline control.

Version scope: DoD Earned Value Management System Interpretation Guide dated March 14, 2019.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original educational commentary and cites the public government publication.

Public full text

Guide for Construction Contract Time Determination Procedures

Federal Highway Administration

Public construction guidance on contract-time determination, production planning, and CPM sequencing.

Version scope: FHWA Technical Advisory TA 5080.15 dated October 15, 2002; current agency and contract requirements must still be confirmed.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original educational commentary and cites the public government source.

Public help

Activities Window

Oracle

Oracle’s current index of the tasks available from the Activities workspace.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Create a project calendar

Oracle

Oracle’s current procedure for creating and modifying a project calendar.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Adding Activities to a Project

Oracle

Oracle’s current index for activity types, dates, durations, calendars, progress types, and activity creation.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Relationships

Oracle

Oracle’s current relationship definitions.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Adding relationships between activities

Oracle

Oracle’s current options for adding relationships through details, assignment tools, the Gantt, and Activity Network.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Schedule a project

Oracle

Oracle’s current F9 procedure, including data date, options, logging, and multi-project notes.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Create a baseline

Oracle

Oracle’s current procedure and P6 EPPM job-service notes.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Assign baselines to projects

Oracle

Oracle’s current project, primary, secondary, and tertiary assignment procedure.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Update a baseline

Oracle

Oracle’s detailed update options, preview process, exclusions, privileges, and job-service notes.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Updating Projects

Oracle

Oracle’s current index for individual and project progress, actuals, spotlight, suspension, earned value, and period performance.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Update progress for individual activities

Oracle

Oracle’s current activity status procedure and calculation notes.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Group and sort a tracking layout using custom settings

Oracle

Oracle’s current grouping and sorting procedure.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Check a schedule

Oracle

Oracle’s current report procedure and threshold notes.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Export projects to an XER file

Oracle

Oracle’s current public XER export procedure and interproject-relationship note.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide Version 24, last published November 21, 2024.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Import projects in XER format

Oracle

Oracle’s current public XER import actions, configuration choices, privileges, and data-loss cautions.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide Version 24, last published November 21, 2024.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

XER

Oracle

Oracle’s current public index for project, resource, role, service, and command-line XER exchange.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide Version 24, last published November 21, 2024.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Public help

Scheduling Projects

Oracle

Oracle’s current index for scheduling, critical paths, and multiple float paths.

Version scope: Primavera P6 Professional Version 26 public help; individual topic publication dates vary within the current library.
Use and rights: Kairos provides original operating commentary and directs readers to Oracle for governing product help.

Review gates

Public-source verification is recorded; independent practitioner review remains recommended.

Public sources verified

Scheduling technical review

Review owner: Qualified planning and scheduling SME

Are definitions, calculations, and professional distinctions technically accurate?
Do procedures preserve data date, calendar, logic, baseline, and calculation-setting controls?
Are review conclusions supported by evidence rather than threshold-only rules?
Are examples appropriately bounded by contract, specification, and project facts?

Public sources verified

P6 operating verification

Review owner: P6 Professional operator and administrator

Do menu paths and interface labels match the stated P6 Professional version?
Do privileges, database type, preferences, layouts, and global-data differences have adequate warnings?
Does each procedure include a visible verification point and closeout record?
Are the original interface maps clear without implying they are Oracle screenshots?

Owner acceptance recorded

Editorial and instructional review

Review owner: Academy content owner

Does every page lead with the decision or operating outcome?
Can a foundation learner understand the language without losing professional precision?
Do diagrams, examples, checklists, and related links reduce cognitive load?
Are duplicate, contradictory, or orphaned topics removed or reconciled?

Public sources verified

Source, rights, and attribution review

Review owner: Content owner with legal review as needed

Does each citation link to the source organization and state the access scope?
Is licensed wording avoided, especially for AACE recommended practices?
Are Oracle product names, screenshots, and documentation handled with accurate attribution?
Do endorsements, certifications, or affiliations remain explicitly unclaimed?

Independent review recommended

Diagnostic and learning-path validation

Review owner: Scheduling SME and learning-design reviewer

Does each scenario have one defensible best answer under the stated facts?
Do distractors represent plausible misconceptions without becoming trick questions?
Are role and domain recommendations proportionate to a fourteen-question sample?
Do all score labels avoid certification, qualification, or mastery claims?

Closed by design

Privacy and no-storage verification

Review owner: Academy content owner with product engineering

Does the public Academy remain usable without an account or learner profile?
Do diagnostics and labs clear on refresh or navigation without writing an Academy browser record?
Are completion controls, persistence keys, storage choices, and the progress-management route absent?
Do future passive or third-party analytics remain disabled until privacy, consent, retention, and legal review is complete?

Privacy boundary

The public Academy does not create a learner profile, completion record, or persistent browser record. Diagnostic and lab results exist only on the current page and disappear when the learner leaves or refreshes it.